This Month's Letter
May 2012
Dear Friends,As I look at my diary May seems to be a buzz of activity in our church as we lead up to the Royal Jubilee. I hope you are ready for lots of celebrations!In our team we start off May with a youth weekend. Some of our young people come from our churches, but this year quite a few of them come from our contacts with children from Jam Club at Christ Church School. This is encouraging especially when we have been able to maintain contact with them through secondary school. They may not come to church on our traditional Sunday morning time, but they are coming to their form of church on Sunday evenings, or learning about Jesus at an after school club. This year we are planning to be at the Cathedral Country Home in Mellor, but I'm afraid that it is less affluent than it sounds, as we have to do our own cooking. The Sunday afterwards we are having our team confirmation service at Christ Church.
A group of us from St Andrew's and Christ Church have met to plan a special Jubilee exhibition for the children of our local schools and of course any adults who might also have a peep into it. It will involve models of important queens and kings, a 'take part in the coronation' scene, quizzes, scene setting and a dvd, and of course coronation memorabilia supplied by you. National occasions like this are also an opportunity for us all to thank God for His goodness to our nation and the way a long, peaceful reign of our Queen has allowed the freedom to worship in our churches without fear or persecution - a freedom which many of our brothers and sisters in Christ do not experience.
Yours very sincerely,
Anne-Louise (Team Vicar)
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